This is an analysis of the poem The Story Of Ung that begins with:
Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago,
Ung, a maker of pictures, fashioned an image of snow.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbX ddcc eeaX ffaX eegg hhcc hhee iijj hXkk kkcX iijX Xcbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100111011001 10100101011001 100100101011011 100100101101001 110101101011001 1001011010000001 11110110100111 1001011110110010 101101101011001 100101101001001 100100101001001 100111101001011 110100101011011 100110101001011 101101101001001 101111010111010110 1011100101101011 110100111001011 111100100111011 10110010011110010 111100101011001 1001101101011111 1101111101001011 1001001011101111 10100111011111001 1001010001110111 101111111111111 11111101011101011 101011001111111101 110010101110101 11011101100101 111100101100101 1011110101010101 110111010100111 111111101111101 11101011000111101 10111001010111001 11111010010110 1010010101101111 111010010110111 1011110110010111 1010100111011111 1111101101100101 111111001011100 111110101111001 111100101110101 11101101011101001 1011111001111010 1101001110100110 10100101001011 100100101011011 100111101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, it, pictured, he, and, would, no, nor, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words pictured, no, and are repeated.
The author used the same words thou, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ung at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Story Of Ung;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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